[OOC: Continuing because I'm tired of waiting.]

So, now, things were getting underway.  Cassius was explaining and outlining things to the others, Which Zen felt was unnecessary.  They did not have the facilities for containing and studying the X at this time.  Maybe discovering the use of a non-lethal containment weapon and a decent scanner would do on the short term, but their priorities were not to hunker down and study in the field while about a million creatures decided to swarm around you.  Eventually, they would find some way to kill them in the time that it takes to discover something more than what is known, something useful.  Their orders were to carry out this mission to destroy them, to complete and enact the Final Protocol to exterminate the X, once and for all.

This talk of study and traps did not really take long, as the next move was to attempt to make contact with the people on the other side of the gate.  Cassius started by giving them an official order, which would certainly move any Federation agent to action.  Kaze decided...

Oh god, [i]why?[/i]

The black dragon had pretty much decided to pull the gate right open, out of its housing entirely.  Rather than fight with its hydraulics, he'd gripped it in his talons and pulled hard.  At about the halfway point, when everybody else might've been raising their objections - He worked fast - there was a large energy blast.  It was a wave blast, and it flung the door [i]and Kaze[/i] back from the force of it!  So, the gate was now open, technically, and they could see inside.

First thing of note?  The eye.  There was suppose to be a door where that eye was.  There were records of the X covering doors with organic matter, and that some of them tried to kill you with energy blasts.  Kaze's barrier was reduced by ten percent, and he hadn't been hit by all of it.  It looked like the thing blinked alot, and every now and then, a wave shot came out of it.  Well, it did NOW, but this answered the 64-Credit question of whether or not there were humans here, because there were NOT.

I mean, REALLY not.

The two human figures here were these ashen-gray-skinned 'people' with empty eyes, no body language, practically no expression, and guns in hand.  Literally.  You ever seen [i]Videodrome[/i], where the main character's actually been bonded to his gun?  No?  Well, the flesh of their hands was wrapped around energy pistols and rifles, and they were coming out to open fire on everyone!

Oh, and...one more thing.  Amy had an alert for Amber, just now.  The drone had wandered further in a vent.  the actual armory had a large heat source in it, a lifeform, but definitely not a human one...